Photomontage (World of Art)

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The third edition of this classic study, the first to focus on this pioneering art form and practice.

The third edition of this classic study, the first to focus on this pioneering art form and practice.
Manipulation of the photograph is as old as photography itself. It has embodied and enlivened political propaganda, satire, publicity and commercial art, and created evocations of the ‘brave new world’ of the future through surreal and fantastic visions. Photomontages were made by, among others, the Dadaists, John Heartfield, El Lissitzky, Hannah Hoch and Alexander Rodchenko, and many of their works were reproduced for the first time in print when this groundbreaking study was originally published.

Revered by academics, critics and readers alike, this new edition is still the only definitive guide to the subject.
Edition type: Third edition
Extent: 232 pp
Format: Paperback
Illustrations: 225
Publication date: 2021-09-16
Size: 21.0 x 15.0 cm
ISBN: 9780500204672

Press Reviews

A valuable service to art and artistic theory, and to history and social studies as well
The Times Literary Supplement

An excellent run-down of this most opportunist of twentieth-century art forms
Observer

Beautifully lucid and precise … packed with information and insight
Time Out

An interesting look at an unusual topic
Amateur Photographer

About the Author

Dawn Ades is Professor Emerita of the History and Theory of Art at the University of Essex. She has written extensively on Dada, Surrealism, photography and women artists, among other things. Publications include Dada and Surrealism Reviewed (1978), Photomontage (1976), Dalí (1995), Writings on Art and Anti-Art (2015) and Marcel Duchamp (with Neil Cox and David Hopkins, 2021). Among the exhibitions she has organised or co-organised are ‘Art in Latin America’ (1989); ‘Fetishism: Visualising Power and Desire’ (1995); ‘Salvador Dalí: The Centenary Retrospective’ (2004); ‘Undercover Surrealism’ (2006); and ‘Dalí/Duchamp’ (2017–18).

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